Zero Downtime: Infinite Demands

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Downtime. It can cost your company countless dollars in lost productivity. Ruin long-standing customer relationships. And put you at legal risk for not complying with industry or government regulations in a timely manner. It’s no wonder that the old “up and running” timeframes for IT departments don’t hold water anymore. Once, you had hours or even days to bring back a server or application that had gone down, and to take the measures necessary to prevent data loss.

Not anymore. Now, stakeholders in your business expect to be up and running in minutes. They assume you’ll be able to achieve near-zero downtime in a virtualized environment. And they demand you do it with a smaller budget, fewer resources and an immensely complex and expanding set of expectations placed upon you.

How did we reach this point? And, apart from spending a fortune on expensive redundant sites or pricey SAN-based replication, what can you do to meet business requirements with limited resources?